UN Pushes for Quick Start of Yemen Talks

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said he is hopeful U.N.-mediated peace talks on Yemen can begin within a few weeks, possibly by the end of the month. Eliasson has just returned from a tour of several key countries in the Middle East, where he held crisis talks on the conflicts in Yemen and Syria. Eliasson said it has been a struggle to get Yemen peace talks underway. He said he is encouraged, though, by the interest he found from both Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates on...

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